This performance was part of the project “Meetings with Remarkable and Unremarkable Trees” that I began in 2020. The title of the artistic research project alludes to the photography book Meetings with Remarkable Trees (1996) by Thomas Pakenham and in some sense forms a counterpoint to it by questioning the distinction between remarkable and unremarkable. Although we are often accused of “not seeing the forest for the trees,” this project wants to look at the opposite danger—not seeing the trees for the forest. During a residency in Johannesburg, from February to March of 2020, the first tree I made acquaintance with was a huge oak tree growing in the yard of the bed and breakfast I stayed at in Parkview. The owner told me that the oak trees in the area were imported by a major who came from Kilkenny in Ireland and named the suburbs Irish names. It was a tree with which I could easily perform daily, so I decided to record a brief moment with the tree every day, if possible, doing a simple yoga pose—simply reaching up with my arms, raising my heels, standing on my toes and trying to stay there. I did not need any further challenge, as just trying to stand on my toes for a moment was hard enough, and I practiced this pose next to the old oak tree (almost) every day between February 13 and March 16, 2020. The performances were documented online and the video, With the Oak on Galway Road, comprises all 31 performances. When my stay in Johannesburg was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, and I had to return to Helsinki, I started another performance there, with a maple tree in the yard at home, and have since performed the same pose for approximately a month with several other trees.